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Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19credit.html?em

Dealing Consumers a New Hand in Credit Cards
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/your-money/20money.html?hp
By RON LIEBER
Published: May 19, 2009
"If you don’t like the new fees and other things that banks will soon be testing as they grapple with their new economic reality, then make some noise. Send a note to me at rlieber@nytimes.com, so I can write about the latest foolishness — or consumer-friendly twist. At the very least, all of our complaints to the higher-ups at the banks may help persuade the companies to head in another direction. "

What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html?hpw

[Originally posted on my personal blog at muralikd.blogspot.com, May 19, 2009]

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